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Here's my piece on 'civ-nats' and 'eth-nats':

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@emanonedits Bookmarking is interesting. Sometimes, it means someone thinks you have a load-bearing tweet. Other times, it means they're going to try to hold you accountable for something later.

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"Gene-culture co-evolution" holds that genetics and culture develop together in a mutually-reinforcing relationship. This implies that people of different races may be more or less ripe for the uptake of different cultures.

[Armand D'Angour @ArmandDAngour]

I used to believe in the overwhelming power of education and culture. Until I adopted a baby from abroad, and discovered as she grew up that her inherited nature was so strong that she instinctively did things common to her natal background that were almost unheard of in her adoptive culture.

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@jarvis_jim1161 @Landeur It's true that in the UK, we don't have safeguards against the "mob rule" problem of Democracy. The Commons can always overrule the Lords.

By contrast, this is something the US Founding Fathers sought to avoid by incorporating Republican safeguards.

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@shadowcanman This tracks. We are approaching the end of the Fourth Turning.

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@Landeur The debate about mixed-race individuals sheds light on this variation.

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@Landeur Ethno-nationalism holds that shared ancestry is an immovable qualifier when establishing national belonging.

But his mistake was assuming that a shared ancestry qualifier implies non-negotiable, complete ancestral homogeneity. Proposed degrees of ancestral qualification vary.

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@ArmandDAngour "Gene-culture co-evolution" holds that genetics and culture develop together in a mutually-reinforcing relationship. This implies that people of different races may be more or less ripe for the uptake of different cultures.

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@emanonedits More to the point, he will find that, amongst civic nationalists, shared ancestry is often a *preference* if not strictly a deal-breaker.

I take this to be the point of common ground that will eventually unite nationalists in the UK.

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@emanonedits The premise of ethno-nationalism is that shared ancestry is an immovable qualifier when establishing national belonging.

His mistake is assuming that a shared ancestry *qualifier* implies non-negotiable, complete ancestral homogeneity. Proposed degrees of qualification vary.

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There are growing campaigns to get "gooners", as a porn-addicted sub-class of disenfranchised men, to vote for parties that aren't on the "far right".

You can see this in the UK with climate awareness media starring popular porn performers, and in this kind of signalling, too.

[Europa.com @europa]

🇩🇪 One of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU candidates is wearing a “MILF” necklace on her official election poster.

Corinna Jodeit admits the term meaning “Mom I’d Like to F*ck” is provocative but claims it represents “independence and strength.”

Follow: @europa

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@europa There are growing campaigns to get "gooners", as a porn-addicted sub-class of disenfranchised men, to vote for parties that aren't on the "far right".

You can see this in the UK with climate awareness media starring popular porn performers, and in this kind of signalling, too.

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@commontruth_ It's a common linguistic trick in these discourses to fold both equality of opportunity and equality of outcome into "equality".

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@commontruth_ Average Fourth Turning moment.

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@samikshassotd Oh, and in 1996, there was the Dunblane massacre, prompting strict gun laws which took effect in the fabled 1997.

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- Class system filter: Back-and-forth arguing about migrants needing to be kept in poor areas and out of rich ones, rather than pointing out that we shouldn't have them at all.

These are features of British culture that significantly delay revolutionary action.

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@emanonedits "Only some accounts can reply."

[Adam Wren @aswren]

This is now the second publication of a full trial transcript in recent history, following the publication of Fiona Goddard’s grooming trial.

The public doesn’t often get to see and read for themselves what happens in court and there are parts of this that are quite fascinating

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"Only some accounts can reply."

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

The campaign for reparations is not going away.

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@commontruth_ That and our culturally-enshrined, fear-driven appeal to authority fallacy. Most look to the state to ask what is legal, in place of looking within to ask what is right.